James Oswald Books in Order

In a remote village, outsider boy Errol and a young dragon named Benfro begin separate journeys that fate is quietly pulling together. Their meeting will matter far beyond their small corner of the Twin Kingdoms.

A young girl’s mutilated body is found in a sealed room decades after her death, while fresh killings shake Edinburgh. DI Tony McLean becomes convinced the cases are linked, even if the answer points somewhere deeply unsettling.

Twelve years after Tony McLean's fiancée was the last victim of Edinburgh’s Christmas Killer, a new body appears in the same chilling style. To stop the murders, he must reopen the case that wrecked his life.

Benfro struggles against the dead mage Magog’s growing influence as Errol, badly broken but still determined, tries to reach Martha. To survive Inquisitor Melyn and what is coming next, boy and dragon must finally work together.

Benfro flees into ancient forest and uncovers dangerous truths about dragon history, while Errol is trapped inside the Holy Order’s plans for war. Their paths pull closer as magic, power, and old enemies gather strength.

A collaborative, interactive novella written with Christopher Fowler and James Oswald. Readers voted on plot twists as the story was written, creating a unique, unpredictable crime narrative.

When a powerful politician appears to have murdered his family and himself, Tony McLean is sent to Fife for the fallout. The case grows stranger when it links to another brutal death and people who want the truth buried.

A string of apparent suicides, each marked by a strange note, pulls Tony McLean into a darker pattern. With a trafficking investigation already on his desk, he soon realizes something far more deliberate is stalking Edinburgh.

A missing journalist leads Tony McLean to a sealed chamber in Gilmerton Cove and a body staged in a ritual purification. With almost no forensic trail to follow, he must hunt a killer driven by fanatic belief.

War spreads across the Twin Kingdoms as Queen Beulah advances and Inquisitor Melyn grows more dangerous. With Benfro captured and Errol in pursuit, the weakening barrier between worlds threatens to turn a brutal conflict into catastrophe.

After a vice squad raid goes badly wrong, Tony McLean is forced back toward a case he thought was long buried. As gruesome deaths mount, the trail leads into Edinburgh’s wealthy circles and his own past.

As war tips toward annihilation, Benfro and Errol are pulled toward the final reckoning of their story. Hidden power, hard choices, and costly betrayals shape a finale where the future of the Twin Kingdoms is on the line.

A body discovered high in a tree sends Tony McLean after the history of a disgraced cop turned crime boss turned public benefactor. The investigation winds through Edinburgh’s underworld and old wounds the city would rather forget.

Undercover officer Constance Fairchild returns to base to find her boss murdered and the operation in ruins. Instead of answers, she gets blame, suspension, and the growing certainty that someone inside the Met wants her dead.

A devastating truck crash in central Edinburgh looks like a terrible accident until Tony McLean spots too many things that do not fit. As he digs deeper, a missing boy and a widening cover-up raise the stakes fast.

A young woman is found hidden in a cold basement room that seems untouched for years. Tony McLean expects a cold case, but the truth is far stranger, and far more dangerous, than anyone first believes.

Suspended and meant to stay quiet, Constance Fairchild comes home to find a mutilated young man barely alive in her flat. The attack links to a string of ritual assaults, and Con cannot stop herself chasing the people behind them.

When a Police Scotland staffer disappears and her burned-out car turns up in remote woodland, Tony McLean’s team races to find her alive. The search soon uncovers older vanishings and a darkness rooted deep in the hills.

Trying to escape London on compassionate leave, Constance Fairchild ends up in a Welsh police cell after fighting off two attackers. When a frightened young woman disappears and Con’s cottage is ransacked, rest becomes the last thing on offer.

The charred body of an elderly woman is found in a hidden gamekeeper’s cottage, and the killing feels anything but random. As more fire deaths follow, Tony McLean begins to see a ritual pattern in the smoke.

An archaeological dig uncovers a body buried seven hundred years ago, then another victim laid to rest in the same disturbing way. Tony McLean is pulled between modern drug violence and a mystery that reaches deep into Edinburgh’s past.

A church collapse exposes the body of an ex-con whose death seems natural, until another man turns up murdered and branded with a cross. Recently retired Tony McLean is drawn back into an investigation stalking Edinburgh’s forgotten corners.

A routine break-in at a biotech start-up with powerful political ties lands Tony McLean in a baffling case. When unexplained deaths follow and a small wooden box keeps surfacing, he realizes something larger and deadlier is in motion.